Virgin Australia LASTCAR Championship: Holden claims Manufacturer's title after crash leaves Holdsworth last.

Sunday 22 November 2015

Holden claims Manufacturer's title after crash leaves Holdsworth last.

Lee Holdsworth picked up his 11^th last-place finish of his career when his #18 FUCKS/Beko/W547 Holden was involved in a multi-car incident on the opening lap of the final race at Philip Island. The finish came in Holdsworth's 153^rd round start.

Tim Blanchard in the #3 Cooldrive Holden started the race in the rear, but at turn 2 Dale Wood in the #21 GB Galvanising/ADVAM Holden, James Courtney in the #22 SP Tools Holden and Lee Holdsworth in the #18 FUCHS/Beko/W547 tangled, dealing heavy damage to car #18, forcing Holdsworth to the garage and to the rear. Dale Wood would continue but further issues in car #21 left Wood in the bottom five.

Rounding out the bottom five was Jason Bright in the #8 BOC Holden after a drive-through penalty for an unsafe release on lap 2, Michael Caurso in the #23 Nismo Nissan after a drive-through penalty for wheels spinning during a pit-stop and Paul Dumbrell in the #222 Repair Management Australia Holden after a late-race mistake dropped him behind Cameron Waters in the #6 Pepsi Max Ford for 21^st.

The Bottom Five

Lee Holdsworth	0 Laps	Crash
Dale Wood	43 Laps	Running
Jason Bright	44 Laps	Running
Michael Caruso	45 Laps	Running
Paul Dumbrell	45 Laps	Running

Driver's Championship

Scott McLaughlin: 5

Nick Percat: 4

Ashley Walsh, James Moffat, Lee Holdsworth: 3

Will Davison, Andre Heimgartner, Todd Kelly, David Wall: 2

Garth Tander, Chazz Mostert, Fabian Coulthard, Jason Bright, Chris Pither, Sebastien Bourdais, Jack LeBrocq, Craig Lowndes, David Reynolds, Dean Canto: 1

Team's Championship

Gary Rodgers Motorsports: 7

Erebus Motorsport: 6

Lucas Dumbrell Motorsports: 4

Nissan Motorsports, Charlie Schwerkolt Racing: 3

Super Black Racing, Brad Jones Racing, Jack Daniel's Racing: 2

Holden Racing Team, Prodrive Racing Australia, Red Bull Racing Australia, Rod Nash Racing/Prodrive Racing Australia: 1

Manufacturer's Championship:

Holden: 11

Volvo: 7

Mercedes: 6

Nissan: 5

Ford: 4

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How Juniorgeneric defines a Last-Place finisher

Australian V8 LASTCAR'S Official Definition of a "Last-Place Finisher" (LPF)

For the purposes of the Australian V8 LASTCAR championship rankings and statistics, a "Last-Place Finisher" (LPF) is a driver(s) who, after qualifying for a V8 Supercars Championship Points-Paying race, the result must be confirmed from official sources, or unofficial sources failing that. Only one driver (or two in a endurance race) can be classified as the LPF for that race.

Meeting those requirements, the LPF can be any driver classified as such for any reason, including, but not limited to.
1) A "did not start" although it should be noted that there is a difference between my definition of "did not start" and Brock Beard's definition of "Did not Start".
For example, in Bathurst 2015 Chazz Mostert and Cameron Waters' #6 Pepsi Max Ford had a huge accident during practice that injured Mostert and all but wrote off the car. Car #6 was withdrawn, and therefore I don't count Mostert and Waters as finishing last. Under Brock Beard's definition, however, Mostert and Waters would have finished last instead of David Wall and Chris Pither.
2) An entrant who encounters an event once the race has started which prevents the driver(s) from finishing ahead of any other qualified entrants, including both DNFs and drivers who finish under power but laps down*

*Only when all the cars in the race are running ahead of the LPF

3) A decision to “start and park” the driver’s entry (Extremely rare in V8 Supercars)
(4) a disqualification handed down by V8 Supercars and/or track officials that subsequently classifies the driver(s) in the final position behind the unofficial LPF.

Australian V8 LASTCAR shall not consider the LPF as anything else, including but not limited too
1) Any DNQ's
2) Any driver's who's car withdrew before the race start.
3)The lowest-ranked driver who finishes the race under power (unless all cars finished under power, actually quite common in V8 Supercars)
4) A driver(s) who finished last initially, however post-race disqualifications usurped the spot.
5) A driver(s) who may be catagorised as finishing last for exhibition events (I may bring these back at some point in the near future, I need more accurate numbers for the events before I start them up again)
6) Anything in non-V8 Supercar Main game (again, insufficent historical data)
7) A driver who was running last when the checkered flag fell, however because they greeted the checkered flag but a drive who was in front of them at the end of the race, however was not running at the end of the race. In that instance the driver who doesn't finish the race will fall behind the driver whom is still running at the end of the race.

In the rare event where official results or a preponderance of unofficial results are later updated with more accurate information about who was the LPF for that event, Australian V8 LASTCAR rankings and statistics shall be updated to reflect that change.